Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda cultellus

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Nuculana according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Leda semenoides, Leda coelatoides, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda vaticani, Leda zitteli, Leda distincta, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda transversa, Leda projecta, Leda deffneri, Leda rangei, Leda stewardi, Leda bavarica, Leda parkei, Leda plana, Leda whitfieldi, Leda doris, Leda wautubbeana, Leda decorata, Leda cochlearella, Leda magnopsis, Leda leia, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda calcarensis, Leda minuta, Leda gabrielis, Leda barranca, Leda sulcellata, Leda houstonia, Leda alkiensis, Leda longifrons, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda ozarkola, Leda scutula, Leda lacryma, Leda minuta, Leda semistriata, Leda caudata, Leda willamettensis, Leda ingens, Leda praeradiata, Leda truncata, Leda zelima, Leda subtrigona, Leda elliptica, Leda radiata, Leda carolinensis, Leda reussi, Leda striatula, Leda striatella, Leda vanuxemi, Leda claviformis, Leda nitida, Leda obolella, Leda trumani, Leda (Lembulus), Leda catasarca, Leda discors, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda crassiparva, Leda subquadrata, Leda pistorupes, Leda schiavi, Leda polynominata, Leda magna, Leda excavata, Leda semipolita, Leda (Leda), Leda dijki, Leda glabra, Leda becki, Leda coelata, Leda renevieri, Leda (Spinula), Leda pygmaea, Leda wissmanniana, Leda scalata, Leda opulenta, Leda kittensis, Leda borsoni, Crassoleda crassatelloides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Elephantenbank, Mungo River, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki

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